Alright so, i saw this idea with Maiko but let me apply it to Zukka real quick
Basically the first thing Sokka does as ambassador is adopt an owl cat and names it Your Honor. Nicknamed Yo Hon just to keep the joke between them
Bacically "Zuko! Your honor shit on the floor again"
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"Zuko! Your honor is stuck in that tree!"
"He can fly"
"Yeah but he's fragile"
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And eventually Zuko goes with it because it is hilarious, and when the rest of the gaang visits Yo Hon does something to irritate Zuko, but all in good fun and Zuko screams "HONOR!" then chasing him off yelling "Get your fuzzy feathered ass back here istg Yo Hon!"
And the gaang is just "what did we miss"
Sokka fills them in and its just a while inside joke
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In a meeting with the advisors will lean over "he Zuko, Your Honor is about to crap on that advisor. And Zuko loses it in the middle of the conference room. Laughing to tears as Yo Hon takes a crap on the advisors head. Oh well. They hated that advisor anyway
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This joke eventually spreads through the whole palace staff, reminding them yet again that he is indeed nothing like his father. Especially with his laugh and bright smile.
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Longer than I meant it to be but please appreciate this
taking the crumbs of venetian agna qel’a chewing biting gnashing on them until there aren’t even bones left and then spitting out. carnevale northern water tribe style
who up feeling like theyre only going backwards. throws up (dialogue from ch23 by @oldpotatoe)
[ID: a digital comic of sokka and zuko from A:TLA in shades of blue and yellow. it consists of two frames. the first frame is of zuko, leaning back and drawn mostly in shadow. his side is lit up with yellow light. he says, "sokka's gone. gone, gone, gone." the second frame is of sokka looking at zuko with wide eyes, neck deep in frothing water. zuko says, "long gone. you're a liar." end ID]
[ID: two more comic pages.
page 2: two small frames of zuko and sokka's eyes. zuko's pupils are blown up. he says, "don't you remember, long-gone-sokka?" sokka's eyebrow is creased down. he says, "remember what?"
page 3: a shot centred on zuko's face. his eye and the restraint around his neck and the chain following it are illuminated. he looks dully at sokka as he says, "you're not real." end ID]